Wellness Profiles

Weight Watchers at Work—Cindy Schultz

Age: 50

Date Joined: June 2012

Weight Loss Goal: Get back on the bone marrow registry

Total weight loss to date: 60 pounds

“We’re all at different parts of our weight-loss journey—some have more to lose than others—and aspire to a different goal,” Schultz said. “I look at them and know that I can do it too.” Read more of Schultz's weight loss journey...

Weight Watchers at Work—Barbara Beuscher

Age: 36

Weight Loss Goal: 60 pounds

Total weight loss to date: 40 pounds

“I looked at a picture of myself a friend gave me and I couldn’t believe it—it was the wake up call I needed,” Barbara Beuscher, the College of Letters and Science director of development, said. Read more of Beuscher's weight loss journey...

Weight Watchers at Work—Jill Milos

Age: 45

Date Joined: June October 2011; October 2012

Weight Loss Goal: 90 pounds

Total weight loss to date: 75 pounds

“I realized I had no reason not to commit to exercising. I had no reason not to make exercising a routine, not to make better food choices and not to be better prepared,” Milos said. Read more of Milos' weight loss journey...

Weight Watchers at Work—Laura Zirbel

Date Joined: June 2012

Weight Loss Goal: To be mid-range healthy BMI—“I just want to be healthy.”

Total weight loss to date: 25 pounds

“I go to the meetings every week because it gets my mind refocused so I don’t just give up,” Zirbel said. “It’s really handy to have the meetings here at UW Oshkosh because I can go on my lunch break.” Read more of Zirbel's weight loss journey...